Dance Academy
Movie:
I can believe it, but I am so happy about it.
Season 1:
Dance Academy is an Australian children’s television drama. Dance Academy features Tara Webster (Xenia Goodwin), a new student at Australia’s National Academy of Dance. The show presents the students at the Academy learning the intricacies of ballet and dance, and is primarily shown from Tara’s perspective, along with fellow first year students Kat Karamakov (Alicia Banit), Abigail Armstrong (Dena Kaplan), Sammy Lieberman (Tom Green), Christian Reed (Jordan Rodrigues), and third year student Ethan Karamakov (Tim Pocock).
Cast:
Xenia Goodwin – Tara Webster:
Tara dreams to get in the Academy and to work for it. She makeс friends like Kat and Sammy and shte competes with Abigail to be the best.
Alicia Banit – Katrina “Kat” Karamakov:
Kat is a rebel reckless girl who become bestfriends with Tara and Sammy. She don’t really want to be in the Academy but she has to. Her family is full of dancers her mother is a principle ballerina, her father is choreographer and her brother studies in the Academy. She is a strange girl whose life you can follow in the next seasons of the serial.
Dena Kaplan – Abigail Armstrong:
Abigail is ambitious ballet dancer who wants to be the best. At first she is friendly with Tara but as soon as she finds her for danger she starts compete with her. She has common past with Kat- they were bestfriends once. After all she become friends with all of the group and also she goes out with Sammy.
Tom Green – Sammy Lieberman:
Sammy is a good guy who has some trouble with his father -Sammy wants to dance but his father wants him to be a doctor. He is the bestfriend for the girls and also for Christian. He has a crush on Abigail from the start and tries to become friend with her and to understand her. He helps her and Christian in difficult moments. At the end of the season he finds himself in a difficult situation when he starts to wonder who he is and he wants to re-find himself.
Jordan Rodrigues – Christian Reed:
He is a street boy whose family torned apart – his father and brother left him and his mother died. He goes to the Academy audition only because his mother would like him to go. Christian has nobody except his friend Aron who has chosen a bad criminal way and involves Christian in it. But there is hope for Christian if he stays in the Academy. Also he becomes friends with Ethan but the problem is that he has a crush on his girlfriend – Tara Webster.
Tim Pocock – Ethan Karamakov:
Ethan is in 3rd year in the Academy and he is Kat’s half brother. He is heartbreaker and at first when Tara has crush for him he doesn’t response in this way but the time he spends with her he fells for her. He is ambitious and wants to be a choreographer but he is afraid of his father’s opinion of how bad is he.
Teachers:
Tara Morice -Lucinda Raine:
Josef Brown – Patrick:
Some posters:
Some Photoshoots:
Screencaps:
FRIENDSHIP BONDING
KISSING LESSONS
PRACTICE KISSING
PRACTICING
HAVING FUN VIDEO MAKING
TROUBLEMAKER
NOT HOMOPHOBIC A PEOPLEPHOBIC
GETTING READY
HIP-HOP AND BALLET TEACHING
FOOTBALL VS. BALLET
AND RULES BREAKING
LOOKING COOL
GOING TO THE DANCE WITH THE BOYFRIEND
RUIN EVERYTHING..HOW BEAUTIFUL
HAVING THE BESTFRIENDS WHO MAKE THE WISHES COME TRUE
FEELING JEALOUS OR NOT GIVING A ****
SISTER BONDING
AVOIDING AND FEELING CONFUSED (for kissing my friend’s girlfriend)
BEING IN THE NATURE AND BEING BEAUTIFUL
FEELING AWKWARD WITH THE EX
THE EX MAKING WISHES COME TRUE
P.S look at the way he looks at her.. ^^
HAVING FUN IN THE POOL WITH FRIENDS
BEING A BADASS AND REGRETTING IT
Season 2:
Tara returns to the Academy for her second year with the hope of representing Australia in an international ballet competition, the Prix de Fonteyn. This series introduced characters Grace Whitney (Isabel Durant), Ben Tickle (Thomas Lacey), Ollie Lloyd (Keiynan Lonsdale), and Saskia Dunca(Brooke Harman) and saw the characters’ reaction to the untimely death of Sammy..
NEW CASTS:
Thomas Lacey- Benjamin Tickle(Ben):
Ben begins this semester as part of the First Year class but it quickly becomes apparent that he’s much more advanced than the other students and they accelerate him to Second Year where he joins the rest of the gang. At first it’s hard for him, but after a while he befriends with the boys and after a while he almost gets together with Tara.
Isabel Durant- Grace Whitney:
Grace is an Australian girl who has been studying in London for the last few years. She is one of the best dancers now, maybe the best and the girls are afraid of that. Her character is everything in one. She’s not making it easy for anybody.
Ollie Lloyd- Keiynan Lonsdale:
Ollie is a very skilled and talented dancer he was kicked off the Third Year Tour and repeats Third Year. He is very outspoken, opinionated, and egotistic. His set focus on how good he is. At first he helps Sammy with the dances but they become friends and even more.
Some Posters:
Photoshoot:
Screencaps:
LAST DAYS OF SUMMER
ON A COMPETITION
BEAUTIFUL DANCE
ROMANTIC MOMENT SHE COULD SING
MOULIN ROUGE
CHALLENGE
HAVING A PARTY
CHATTING WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND ALL NIGHT
HAVING A WRONG ROMANTIC MOMENT
DANCING WITH THE BAND
SORRY
BROKEN
HIP-HOP COMPETITION
CIRCUS
DOING IT FOR HER
DOING IT FOR ME
FLASH MOB
CAPTURING THE MOMENT
FAMILY BONDING
BEING CUTE WEARING HATS
HE’S GONE
SAYING GOODBYE
END OF THE SECOND YEAR (in memoriam ofSammy)
SEASON 3:
The third year is the hardest year. After Sammy’s death they have to stay together and not to forget that they are together in this. There are some bad moments some hard times but at the end everyone gets what they want.
POSTERS:
PHOTOSHOOT:
SCREENCAPS:
BIRTHDAY PARTY
HAVE TO GO
FINDING MYSELF
MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSION
TRYING TO BE NICE
PRACTICE MAKES US PERFECT
GIRLS ARE THE BEST
BLONDE TWINS
THAT MOMENT
DANCING IN PINK
dance-academy-obsession
December 15, 2015 at 11:44 pm
Lovely snippets of key events in Dance Academy. I LOVE your screencaps!
justsmile97
December 16, 2015 at 5:11 am
Thank you! 🙂